http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26643141 Putin: "These troops are so totally not under our command nor are they lead or guided by our ex-Soviet KGB agents. Oh and that Crimean vote was so totally legitimate. We only had to count the votes ourselves because no one else would have counted correctly." [quote]Pro-Russian activists, some of them armed, have stormed a Ukrainian naval base in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Russian flags have been seen flying from buildings, the headquarters of the Ukrainian navy, and several Ukrainian servicemen were seen leaving the base. It comes a day after Crimean leaders signed a treaty with Russia absorbing the peninsula into the Russian Federation after a disputed referendum. The move has been widely condemned internationally. On Monday, the US and the EU imposed sanctions on several officials from Russia and Ukraine accused of involvement in Moscow's actions in the Black Sea peninsula.[/quote]